AWSGlueServiceRole

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Summary

Policy for AWS Glue service role which allows access to related services including EC2, S3, and Cloudwatch Logs

Permissions imported from the AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide; other sections pending editorial review.

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSGlueServiceRole
Default version: v5
Created: 2017-08-14
Last edited: 2023-09-11
Services: cloudwatch, ec2, glue, iam, logs, s3

Control-plane actions (326)

By access level: 35 List, 36 Permissions management, 97 Read, 4 Tagging, 154 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
EC2	10 of 834	6 List, 2 Tagging, 2 Write; 2 restricted, 2 conditional	ec2:CreateNetworkInterface, ec2:CreateTags, ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface, ec2:DeleteTags, ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces, ec2:DescribeRouteTables, ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups, ec2:DescribeSubnets, ec2:DescribeVpcAttribute, ec2:DescribeVpcEndpoints
Glue	All 306 actions (see the Glue page)	27 List, 36 Permissions management, 93 Read, 2 Tagging, 148 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	glue:*
IAM	3 of 190	1 List, 2 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	iam:GetRole, iam:GetRolePolicy, iam:ListRolePolicies
CloudWatch Logs	3 of 133	3 Write; 3 restricted, 0 conditional	logs:CreateLogGroup, logs:CreateLogStream, logs:PutLogEvents
S3	4 of 155	1 List, 2 Read, 1 Write; 1 restricted, 0 conditional	s3:CreateBucket, s3:GetBucketAcl, s3:GetBucketLocation, s3:ListAllMyBuckets

EC2: 10 actions

ec2:CreateNetworkInterface (Write)
ec2:CreateTags (Tagging)
ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface (Write)
ec2:DeleteTags (Tagging)
ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces (List)
ec2:DescribeRouteTables (List)
ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups (List)
ec2:DescribeSubnets (List)
ec2:DescribeVpcAttribute (List)
ec2:DescribeVpcEndpoints (List)

IAM: 3 actions

iam:GetRole (Read)
iam:GetRolePolicy (Read)
iam:ListRolePolicies (List)

CloudWatch Logs: 3 actions

logs:CreateLogGroup (Write)
logs:CreateLogStream (Write)
logs:PutLogEvents (Write)

S3: 4 actions

s3:CreateBucket (Write)
s3:GetBucketAcl (Read)
s3:GetBucketLocation (Read)
s3:ListAllMyBuckets (List)

Data-plane actions (5)

By access level: 1 List, 1 Read, 3 Write.

Data-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
CloudWatch	1 of 5	1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	cloudwatch:PutMetricData
S3	4 of 25	1 List, 1 Read, 2 Write; 3 restricted, 0 conditional	s3:DeleteObject, s3:GetObject, s3:ListBucket, s3:PutObject

CloudWatch: 1 actions

cloudwatch:PutMetricData (Write)

S3: 4 actions

s3:DeleteObject (Write)
s3:GetObject (Read)
s3:ListBucket (List)
s3:PutObject (Write)

Excluded and conditional actions

No patterns are excluded by NotAction or Deny statements.

Resource scope and attachment

Resource scope across granted actions: mixed.

Can be attached: Yes, to users, groups and roles.

Why this tier

Grants at least 80% of the write and permissions-management actions of: glue (184 of 184).
Grants data-plane write actions on a data store, but only for scoped resources or under conditions.

Guidance

Pending editorial review. The permission data on this page comes straight from AWS; this section will be filled in once a reviewed guide exists.

Same service

Same domain

Frequently asked questions

Pending editorial review. The permission data on this page comes straight from AWS; this section will be filled in once a reviewed guide exists.

Policy JSON

Download policy.json

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "glue:*",
        "s3:GetBucketLocation",
        "s3:ListBucket",
        "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
        "s3:GetBucketAcl",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpoints",
        "ec2:DescribeRouteTables",
        "ec2:CreateNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcAttribute",
        "iam:ListRolePolicies",
        "iam:GetRole",
        "iam:GetRolePolicy",
        "cloudwatch:PutMetricData"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:CreateBucket"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:s3:::aws-glue-*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:PutObject",
        "s3:DeleteObject"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:s3:::aws-glue-*/*",
        "arn:aws:s3:::*/*aws-glue-*/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:GetObject"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:s3:::crawler-public*",
        "arn:aws:s3:::aws-glue-*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "logs:CreateLogGroup",
        "logs:CreateLogStream",
        "logs:PutLogEvents"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:logs:*:*:*:/aws-glue/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CreateTags",
        "ec2:DeleteTags"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "ForAllValues:StringEquals": {
          "aws:TagKeys": [
            "aws-glue-service-resource"
          ]
        }
      },
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v5, edited by AWS on 2023-09-11. Version history is recorded from 2026-11-11. Earlier versions are in the IAM console under Policy versions.

Attach snippets

AWS CLI

aws iam attach-role-policy --role-name ROLE_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSGlueServiceRole
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSGlueServiceRole
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSGlueServiceRole

CloudFormation

Resources:
  ExampleRole:
    Type: AWS::IAM::Role
    Properties:
      AssumeRolePolicyDocument: {}  # replace with your trust policy
      ManagedPolicyArns:
        - arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSGlueServiceRole

Terraform

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "service_role_awsglueservicerole" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSGlueServiceRole"
}

CDK (TypeScript)

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("service-role/AWSGlueServiceRole"),
);

Sources

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